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A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women. By Herman Melville
For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it. By Herman Melville
What could be more full of meaning? - for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. By Herman Melville
Fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon - so like a corkscrew now - was flung By Herman Melville
Now, art thou the man to pitch a harpoon down a live whale's throat, and then jump after it? Answer, quick! By Herman Melville
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend. By Herman Melville
Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat. By Herman Melville
Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? By Herman Melville
Don't whale it too much a' Lord's days, men; but don't miss a fair chance either, that's rejecting Heaven's good gifts. By Herman Melville
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect. By Herman Melville
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. By Herman Melville
In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? By Herman Melville
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. By Herman Melville
Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil? By Herman Melville
I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. By Herman Melville
A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king. By Herman Melville
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. By Herman Melville
He's no more afraid than the isle fort at Cattegat, put there to fight the Baltic with storm-lashed guns, on which the sea-salt cakes! By Herman Melville
Oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. By Herman Melville
The only real owner of anything is its commander; By Herman Melville
For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal ... By Herman Melville
A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk. By Herman Melville
The eyes are the gateway to the soul. By Herman Melville
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123) By Herman Melville
It rolls the mid-most waters of the world, the Indian Ocean and Atlantic being just its arms. By Herman Melville
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. By Herman Melville
It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. By Herman Melville
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves? By Herman Melville
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. By Herman Melville
All truth is profound. By Herman Melville
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. By Herman Melville
Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. By Herman Melville
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind. By Herman Melville
Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea. By Herman Melville
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea. By Herman Melville
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. By Herman Melville
Where the deepest word ends, there music begins with its supersensuous and all-confounding intimations. By Herman Melville
The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. By Herman Melville
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all. By Herman Melville
Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor By Herman Melville
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. By Herman Melville
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. By Herman Melville
The American, who up to the present day, has evinced, in Literature, the largest brain with the largest heart, that man is Nathaniel Hawthorne. By Herman Melville
Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures. By Herman Melville
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. By Herman Melville
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. By Herman Melville
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea. By Herman Melville
And Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. By Herman Melville
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage. By Herman Melville
Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought. If ye touch at the islands, Mr. Flask, beware of fornication. By Herman Melville
I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one. By Herman Melville
Thus mysterious divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one Bay to it; seems heart-beating heart of earth. By Herman Melville
To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. By Herman Melville
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;" might as well kill both birds at once. By Herman Melville
Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. By Herman Melville
The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone Portent or promiseand gives way To pale, meek Dawn. By Herman Melville
Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. By Herman Melville
No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. By Herman Melville
There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay. By Herman Melville
Youth must its ignorant impulse lend--Age finds place in the rear.All wars are boyish and are fought by boys By Herman Melville
Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee! By Herman Melville
The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads. By Herman Melville
an eight day clock. By Herman Melville
However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. By Herman Melville
Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward. By Herman Melville
Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls. By Herman Melville
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. By Herman Melville
The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? - Because one did survive the wreck. By Herman Melville
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible. By Herman Melville
What are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God! By Herman Melville
I would prefer not to. By Herman Melville
Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side. By Herman Melville
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. By Herman Melville
Students of history are horror-struck at the massacres of old; but in the shambles, men are being murdered to-day. By Herman Melville
Adverse winds are holding mad Christmas in him, boys. By Herman Melville
Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own. By Herman Melville
Aye, aye, it must be so. I've oversailed him. How, got the start? Aye, he's chasing ME now; not I, HIMthat's bad By Herman Melville
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. By Herman Melville
We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother. By Herman Melville
Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. By Herman Melville
Ignorance is the parent of fear. By Herman Melville
Throwing aside the counterpane, there lay the tomahawk sleeping by the savage's side, as if it were a hatchet-faced baby. By Herman Melville
All the trees, with all their laden branches; all the shrubs, and ferns, and grasses; the message-carrying air; all these unceasingly were active. By Herman Melville
But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous. By Herman Melville
Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By Herman Melville
Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after. By Herman Melville
though this pre-eminence in it applies to the human race itself, giving the white man ideal mastership over every dusky tribe; By Herman Melville
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence. By Herman Melville
The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. By Herman Melville
Courage is the most common and vulgar of the virtues. By Herman Melville
Wife? - rather a widow with her husband alive! Aye, I widowed that poor girl when I married her, By Herman Melville
Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. By Herman Melville
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old! By Herman Melville
We cannot live for ourselves alone. By Herman Melville
Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any. By Herman Melville
Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb. By Herman Melville
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain" (I.E., even while living) "in the congregation of the dead. By Herman Melville
I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense. By Herman Melville
I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense. By Herman Melville
Pott's, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a box of sperm candles By Herman Melville
All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea By Herman Melville
Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence. By Herman Melville
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land. By Herman Melville
Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! By Herman Melville
Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play. By Herman Melville
No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man. By Herman Melville
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters. By Herman Melville
Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. By Herman Melville
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them. By Herman Melville
An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide. By Herman Melville
Call me Ishmael. By Herman Melville
Morning to ye! Morning to ye! By Herman Melville
The fool had been branded for the slaughter by the gods. By Herman Melville
And though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore. By Herman Melville
For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth. By Herman Melville
When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast. By Herman Melville
The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality! By Herman Melville
Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse. By Herman Melville
Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that? By Herman Melville
I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. By Herman Melville
I shall leave the world, I feel, with more satisfaction for having come to know you. Knowing you persuades me more than the Bible of our immortality By Herman Melville
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. By Herman Melville
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. By Herman Melville
Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me. By Herman Melville
When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing. By Herman Melville
What like a bullet can undeceive! By Herman Melville
Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. By Herman Melville
Flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. By Herman Melville
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. By Herman Melville
Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well. By Herman Melville
Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep betweenIs my journey's end coming? By Herman Melville
That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia. By Herman Melville
My means are sane, my motives and my object mad. By Herman Melville
A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. By Herman Melville
These Spaniards are all an odd set; the very word Spaniard has a curious, conspirator, Guy-Fawkish twang to it. By Herman Melville
Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue. By Herman Melville
I've part changed my flesh since that time, why not my mind? By Herman Melville
Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand. By Herman Melville
art is the objectification of feeling By Herman Melville
One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning. By Herman Melville
Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense. By Herman Melville
For few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action By Herman Melville
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking. By Herman Melville
Born in throes, 't is fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then! By Herman Melville
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. By Herman Melville
We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us? By Herman Melville
At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before By Herman Melville
In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece. By Herman Melville
Delight,top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven. By Herman Melville
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. By Herman Melville
Ignorance is the father of all fear. By Herman Melville
For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one. By Herman Melville
Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth. By Herman Melville
Leviathan is not the biggest fish; - I have heard of Krakens. By Herman Melville
Ego non baptiso te in nomine ... but make out the rest yourself. By Herman Melville
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about. By Herman Melville
Stay true to the dreams of thy youth. By Herman Melville
Yet, after all, insensible as he is to a thousand wants, and removed from harassing cares, my not the savage be the happier man..? By Herman Melville
Queequeq, my fine friend, does this sort of thing often happen? By Herman Melville
It is not down on any map; true places never are. By Herman Melville
Holloa! Starbuck's astir," said the rigger. "He's a lively chief mate that; good man, and a pious; but By Herman Melville
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled. By Herman Melville
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass. By Herman Melville
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. By Herman Melville
immortality is but ubiquity in time); that By Herman Melville
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. By Herman Melville
You cannot hide the soul. By Herman Melville
Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed. By Herman Melville
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. By Herman Melville
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? By Herman Melville
True places are not found on maps. By Herman Melville
If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. By Herman Melville
Slowly it floats more and more away, By Herman Melville
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. By Herman Melville
Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. By Herman Melville
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. By Herman Melville
Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. By Herman Melville
The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. By Herman Melville
It is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one. By Herman Melville
go on a whaling voyage; this By Herman Melville
God is liberal of color; so should man be. By Herman Melville
What he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him. By Herman Melville
In certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. By Herman Melville
in coat, heart, body, and brain; By Herman Melville
There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick! By Herman Melville
Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien. By Herman Melville
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it. By Herman Melville
Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn. By Herman Melville
To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order. By Herman Melville
Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself. By Herman Melville
Below calls ditto. I'll get the almanac and as I have heard devils can By Herman Melville
Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve? By Herman Melville
But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby Dick; Chap 7 p36) By Herman Melville
Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Now, By Herman Melville
Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. By Herman Melville
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. By Herman Melville
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. By Herman Melville
And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. By Herman Melville
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. By Herman Melville
His mind swarmed with superstitious suspicions. By Herman Melville
War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character. By Herman Melville
Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly. By Herman Melville
An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea. By Herman Melville
So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that. By Herman Melville
Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality. He By Herman Melville
Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man. By Herman Melville
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods. By Herman Melville
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie. By Herman Melville
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world ... We are not a nation, so much as a world. By Herman Melville
Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order. By Herman Melville
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. By Herman Melville
Equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like. By Herman Melville
He loved books, never going to sea without a newly replenished library, compact but of the best. By Herman Melville
And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. By Herman Melville
From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop. By Herman Melville
Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him. By Herman Melville
Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own. By Herman Melville
To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. By Herman Melville
Niggards are oftentimes neat. By Herman Melville
It is a way I have of driving off the spleen By Herman Melville
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils. By Herman Melville
All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. By Herman Melville
Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock. By Herman Melville
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. By Herman Melville
Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute. By Herman Melville
What a beautiful and chaste-looking mouth! from floor to ceiling, lines, or rather papered with a glistening white membrane, glossy as bridal satins. By Herman Melville
The devil fetch ya, ya ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. By Herman Melville
Ah! how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them! Why By Herman Melville
I could ... see in Emerson ... that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions. By Herman Melville
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head. By Herman Melville
In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight. By Herman Melville
Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall. By Herman Melville
Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die By Herman Melville
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. By Herman Melville
The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead. By Herman Melville
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? By Herman Melville
In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations. By Herman Melville
There's something ever egotistical in mountain tops and towers, and all things grand and lofty. By Herman Melville
A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; By Herman Melville
There is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk. By Herman Melville
My body is but the lees of my better being. By Herman Melville
If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born. By Herman Melville
Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee. By Herman Melville
Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy. By Herman Melville
The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed. By Herman Melville
s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own. By Herman Melville
What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures. By Herman Melville
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. By Herman Melville
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism. By Herman Melville
Aid my disillusionment, my friend! By Herman Melville
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. By Herman Melville
Instinct and study, love and hate;Audacity-reverence. These must mate,And fuse with Jacob's heart,To wrestle with the angel Art. By Herman Melville
In his fiery eyes of scorn and triumph, you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride. By Herman Melville
There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness. By Herman Melville
Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale! By Herman Melville
But I shall follow the endless, winding way, - the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land. By Herman Melville
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. By Herman Melville
Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong. By Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. By Herman Melville
Yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. By Herman Melville
*The ancient whale-cry upon first sighting a whale from the mast-head, still used by whalemen in hunting the famous Gallipagos terrapin. By Herman Melville
I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar. By Herman Melville
eternal blue noon; By Herman Melville
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. By Herman Melville
Better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, By Herman Melville
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. By Herman Melville
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale ... from hell's heart I stab at thee. By Herman Melville
There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. By Herman Melville
Indeed, it was his wonderful mildness chiefly, which not only disarmed me, but unmanned me, as it were. By Herman Melville
blow your trump - blister your lungs! - Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream! By Herman Melville
Queegqueg no care what god made him shark ... wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god what made him shark must be one dam Ingin. By Herman Melville
Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world. By Herman Melville
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe. By Herman Melville
For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error. By Herman Melville
The most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, By Herman Melville
In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. By Herman Melville
for immortality is but ubiquity in time By Herman Melville
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. By Herman Melville
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. By Herman Melville
Genius is full of trash. By Herman Melville
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. By Herman Melville
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. By Herman Melville
For backward or forward, eternity is the same; already have we been the nothing we dread to be. By Herman Melville
A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another. By Herman Melville
Usher - threadbare By Herman Melville
How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast. By Herman Melville
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.' By Herman Melville
We cannibals must help these Christians. By Herman Melville
Nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's queer, says Stubb; he's queer - queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into Mr. Starbuck all the By Herman Melville
CHAPTER 64 Stubb's Supper By Herman Melville
Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death. By Herman Melville
Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither? By Herman Melville
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing. By Herman Melville
Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall. By Herman Melville
One would like to know, what were foes made for except to be used? By Herman Melville
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. By Herman Melville
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. By Herman Melville
So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me. By Herman Melville
I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself By Herman Melville
His mind appeared unstrung, if not still more seriously affected. By Herman Melville
In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority. By Herman Melville
this whale carries the everlasting mail! By Herman Melville
Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men. By Herman Melville
The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life. By Herman Melville
Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember. By Herman Melville
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them. By Herman Melville
Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning. By Herman Melville
I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, By Herman Melville
I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology. By Herman Melville
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature. By Herman Melville
So with stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along, By Herman Melville
Though from unavoidable circumstances, considerable of it By Herman Melville
Time, time; if I but only had the time, By Herman Melville
This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror. By Herman Melville
Nature cared not a jot. By Herman Melville
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? By Herman Melville
Multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should By Herman Melville
It is against the will of God that the East should be Christianized. By Herman Melville
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. By Herman Melville
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things. By Herman Melville
To be hated cordially is only a left-handed compliment By Herman Melville
A whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama. By Herman Melville
At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave. By Herman Melville
I try all things, I achieve what I can. By Herman Melville
Mockery! bitter, biting mockery of grey hairs, have I lived enough joy to wear ye; and seem and feel thus intolerably old? By Herman Melville
Hast seen the white whale? By Herman Melville
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty. By Herman Melville
Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition. By Herman Melville
Command the murderous chalices ... Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bowDeath to Moby Dick! By Herman Melville
For there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. By Herman Melville
But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon. By Herman Melville
Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill. By Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. By Herman Melville
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below. By Herman Melville
I wonder, Flask, whether the world is anchored anywhere; if she is, she swings with an uncommon long cable, though. By Herman Melville
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. By Herman Melville
Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the By Herman Melville
Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate! By Herman Melville
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. By Herman Melville
There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired health. By Herman Melville
Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? By Herman Melville
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. By Herman Melville
Failure is the true test of greatness By Herman Melville
Thy silence, then that voices thee. By Herman Melville
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. By Herman Melville
There is an aesthetics in all things. By Herman Melville
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! By Herman Melville
In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad ... How can'st thou endure without being mad? By Herman Melville
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow. By Herman Melville
He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity. By Herman Melville
Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves. By Herman Melville
Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue. By Herman Melville
God's one and only voice is silence. By Herman Melville
There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid. By Herman Melville
In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti. By Herman Melville
There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair. By Herman Melville
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none. By Herman Melville
Where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost By Herman Melville
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit. By Herman Melville
The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would. By Herman Melville
Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? By Herman Melville
The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper. By Herman Melville
While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet. By Herman Melville
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things. By Herman Melville
Truth is in things, and not in words. By Herman Melville
content with his own companionship; By Herman Melville
The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one. By Herman Melville
Nameless miseries of the numberless mortals By Herman Melville
He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me around my waist, and said henceforth we were married. By Herman Melville
You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic - especially toward the Fourth of July. By Herman Melville
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. By Herman Melville
With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. By Herman Melville
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. By Herman Melville
And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too? By Herman Melville
There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not By Herman Melville
Honor lies in the mane of a horse. By Herman Melville
Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on. By Herman Melville
Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air! By Herman Melville
5TH NANTUCKET SAILOR What's that I saw - lightning? Yes. SPANISH SAILOR No; Daggoo showing his teeth. By Herman Melville
All things that God would have us do are hard for us to doremember thatand hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade. By Herman Melville
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own. By Herman Melville
Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington. By Herman Melville
He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. By Herman Melville
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. By Herman Melville
Only the man who says no is free By Herman Melville
How wondrous familiar is a fool! By Herman Melville
Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness By Herman Melville
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang! By Herman Melville
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. By Herman Melville
How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish? By Herman Melville
Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. By Herman Melville
conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my By Herman Melville
They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company. By Herman Melville
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth. By Herman Melville
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future. By Herman Melville
At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply. By Herman Melville
If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh. By Herman Melville
Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee! By Herman Melville
Dost thee?" said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me. "I dost," said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker. By Herman Melville
Ah! how cheerfully we cosign ourselves to perdition! By Herman Melville
his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad. By Herman Melville
But the reason why the grave-digger made music must have been because there was none in his spade By Herman Melville
For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men By Herman Melville
Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton. By Herman Melville
For some of these same Quakers are the most sanguinary of all sailors and whale-hunters. They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance. By Herman Melville
Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to. By Herman Melville
Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them. By Herman Melville
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite. By Herman Melville
There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland. By Herman Melville
We die of too much life. By Herman Melville
All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque. By Herman Melville
Gone? - gone? What means that little word? - What By Herman Melville
Great towers take time to construct. By Herman Melville
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! By Herman Melville
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. By Herman Melville
He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor. By Herman Melville
Contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love. By Herman Melville
I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God? By Herman Melville
It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin. By Herman Melville
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature. By Herman Melville
them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under By Herman Melville
Praise when merited is not a boon: yet to a generous nature, is it pleasant to utter it. By Herman Melville
the king of kind hearts and polite fellows By Herman Melville
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. By Herman Melville
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. By Herman Melville
I would be as free as air; and I'm down in the whole world's books. By Herman Melville
Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye Gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do. By Herman Melville
The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open ... By Herman Melville
That before living agent, now became the living instrument. By Herman Melville
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run By Herman Melville
I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. By Herman Melville
There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man. By Herman Melville
The United States wore empire on its brow By Herman Melville
Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate By Herman Melville
Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling ... By Herman Melville
Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich. By Herman Melville
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. By Herman Melville
[ ... ] and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly. By Herman Melville
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. By Herman Melville
You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing. By Herman Melville
Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring. By Herman Melville
A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon. By Herman Melville
Nature is nobody's ally. By Herman Melville
The easiest way of life is the best. By Herman Melville
Who ain't a slave? By Herman Melville
...if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned. By Herman Melville
Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. By Herman Melville
Hope proves a man deathless. By Herman Melville
Who ain't a slave? Tell me that. By Herman Melville
Youth is the time when hearts are large. By Herman Melville
Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck. By Herman Melville
But this whole world is a preposterous one, with many preposterous people in it. By Herman Melville
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are. By Herman Melville
We die, because we live. By Herman Melville
A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. By Herman Melville
In fact, tell him I've diddled him, and perhaps somebody else. By Herman Melville
To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. By Herman Melville
And descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned. By Herman Melville
War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace. By Herman Melville
You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in. By Herman Melville
We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things ... By Herman Melville
Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan. By Herman Melville
And especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, By Herman Melville
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another. By Herman Melville
But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil. By Herman Melville
of the Pequod was a most wealthy example of these things. On its round border it bore the By Herman Melville
What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? By Herman Melville
To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil. By Herman Melville
A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true. By Herman Melville
Prayer draws us near to our own souls. By Herman Melville
Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing. By Herman Melville
We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. By Herman Melville
Failure is the test of greatness. By Herman Melville
If not against us, nature is not for us. By Herman Melville
This slavery breeds ugly passions in man. By Herman Melville
Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols. By Herman Melville
The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all. By Herman Melville
Beauty is like pietyyou cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. By Herman Melville
Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty. By Herman Melville
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there. By Herman Melville
Love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye! By Herman Melville
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence. By Herman Melville
But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. By Herman Melville
It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell. By Herman Melville
I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals; and ready at any moment to rebel against him. By Herman Melville
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. By Herman Melville
In this world, headwinds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim). By Herman Melville
I'm a demoniac; I am madness maddened By Herman Melville
All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering. By Herman Melville
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. By Herman Melville
In this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness By Herman Melville
We become sad in the first place because we have nothing stirring to do. By Herman Melville
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. By Herman Melville
Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. By Herman Melville
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. By Herman Melville
But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way. By Herman Melville
Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing buthappiness. By Herman Melville
And God created great whales. - genesis. By Herman Melville
And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us. By Herman Melville
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing. By Herman Melville
Go mad I cannot: I maintainThe perilous outpost of the sane. By Herman Melville
Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free. By Herman Melville
1These have been corrected in this EPUB3 edition. By Herman Melville
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure. By Herman Melville
